I suspended my masters degree for over 2 years for personal reasons.
Then I decided to start a new course at the same university.
SFE advised me over the phone to reapply for a new loan with evidence of compelling personal reasons and to ask my university to withdraw me from my previous course so my new one can be a 'new period of study'.
It's been months and my uni hasn't done it.
First, they said it was a problem with how my account was originally set up, then they said it was because my old course no longer exists. Now they've told me that before they can inform SFE my account needs to be withdrawn by the person who originally enrolled me, but they don't know who enrolled me.
They go weeks without responding to my emails, and then when they do it’s a different person and I have to go through everything from the beginning. They've marked my support tickets on the student website as complete, telling me that they've done it when they haven't. They told me they would get it resolved urgently on Jan 9th, right before I paid for my current module. That was the last I heard from them. I've emailed them twice and raised a support ticket but they're just ignoring me.
I started this course in July.
I'm so stressed. I can't decrease my hours in work to study for this masters because I'm paying for the modules, which is expensive and I simply cannot do it anymore.
I've sent my application and evidence to SFE months ago. I literally can't find anything about this kind of situation online, but surely the university can't obstruct my access to funding like this. If they have this much control over my loan application there must be a timeframe they have to abide by.
Please could you tell me if there's anything I can do?